Distributed Proofreaders 众包协作将公共领域书籍转为电子书
Distributed Proofreaders
Distributed Proofreaders 通过分页众包协作，将美国公共领域书籍转换为高质量、可自由获取的电子文本。每页由志愿者对照扫描图像和 OCR 文本完成校对，再交由另一名志愿者复核，随后进入第三轮校对和两轮排版，最终汇编并提交至 Project Gutenberg。平台创立于 2000 年，2002 年成为 Project Gutenberg 官方站点，现由志愿者社区运行。
文章拆解了分布式校对的分页并行、三轮校对和两轮排版流程，适合了解众包协作如何加速电子书制作。
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Site Concept
Distributed Proofreaders provides a web-based method to ease the conversion of Public Domain books into e-books. By dividing the workload into individual pages, many volunteers can work on a book at the same time, which significantly speeds up the creation process.
During proofreading, volunteers are presented with a scanned page image and the corresponding OCR text on a single web page. This allows the text to be easily compared to the image, proofread, and sent back to the site. A second volunteer is then presented with the first volunteer's work and the same page image, verifies and corrects the work as necessary, and submits it back to the site. The book then similarly progresses through a third proofreading round and two formatting rounds using the same web interface.
Once all the pages have completed these steps, a post-processor carefully assembles them into an e-book, optionally makes it available to interested parties for 'smooth reading', and submits it to the Project Gutenberg archive.
How You Can Help
Registered volunteers may contribute to Distributed Proofreaders in several ways including proofreading, "smooth reading" pre-released e-books to check for errors, managing projects, providing content, or even helping develop improvements to the site. Volunteers may also join other members of our community in our forums to discuss these and many other topics.
Volunteering at Distributed Proofreaders
It's easy to volunteer at Distributed Proofreaders. Simply register as a volunteer. Once you've confirmed your registration by e-mail, you'll receive an introductory e-mail with basic instructions on how to log in and use the site. Then, you're ready to sign in and start learning to proofread or visit the smooth reading page to pick an e-book to read! Wherever you go, you'll find lots of information to help you get started. Please try our Walkthrough for a preview of the steps involved when proofreading on this site.
There is no commitment expected on this site beyond the understanding that you do your best. Spend as much or as little time as you like. We encourage you to proofread at least a page a day and/or smooth read a book as often as your time allows, but it's entirely up to you.
We hope you will join us in our mission of "preserving the literary history of the world in a freely available form for everyone to use."
We are unable to provide certification for any purpose that would require Distributed Proofreaders to track the number of hours spent volunteering, or to provide verification of a user's identity beyond that provided by their email address, or to certify that the volunteer personally performed the work. For these reasons, we cannot provide certification for court-ordered community service, programs operated by federal, state, or municipal governments, etc. For more information, please see this page.
Current Progress
These books have been processed through our site and posted to the Project Gutenberg archive.
These books are undergoing their final checks before being assembled into a completed e-book.
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Mission
Distributed Proofreaders is dedicated to the preservation of written works that are in the Public Domain in the United States by converting them into high-quality, freely available digital transcriptions. This is accomplished through the efforts of a supportive community of volunteers. Distributed Proofreaders follows the principles of the American Library Association Freedom to Read statement.
History
Distributed Proofreaders was founded in 2000 by Charles Franks to support the digitization of Public Domain books. Originally conceived to assist Project Gutenberg (PG), Distributed Proofreaders (DP) is now the main source of PG e-books. In 2002, Distributed Proofreaders became an official PG site. In May 2006, Distributed Proofreaders became a separate legal entity and continues to maintain a strong relationship with PG.
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